Vandana Shiva Quotes
Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
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I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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I think it was 37 years that I did music.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
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My ambition is to get better as an actor.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
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People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
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My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
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Love just happens, you know.
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The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential.
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People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.
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Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.
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For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.
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I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.
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Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.
